ReadyNAS 2100 User Manual
Getting Acquainted 1-1
v1.0, May 2009
Chapter 1
Getting Acquainted
This chapter provides an overview of the features and capabilities of the ReadyNAS 2100. It also
covers the unit’s physical features, main software, and initial setup steps.
Topics discussed in this chapter include:
• “What is the ReadyNAS 2100?”
• “What Are the Benefits of X-RAID and X-RAID2?”
• “Introducing the Status Displays, Ports, and Drive Bay”
• “Initial Setup”
• “The RAIDar Setup Utility”
• “The FrontView Management Console”
• “NETGEAR ReadyNAS Community”
What is the ReadyNAS 2100?
NETGEAR ReadyNAS gigabit network storage products provide small and medium sized
businesses with easy-to-use, high-performance network attached storage solutions to share and
protect critical data. Housed in a compact rack mount form factor, the ReadyNAS 2100 supports
up to four SATA I or SATA II hard drives via lockable, hot-swappable disk trays. Three USB 2.0
ports enable the connection of USB drives or printers. Based on current drive capacities, the
ReadyNAS provides up to 6TB of network attached storage that can easily be expanded as larger
capacity drives become available.
The ReadyNAS enables users across the LAN, WAN, or over the Internet to back up and share
data from Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems. ReadyNAS offers extensible robust high-
availability data protection. Its fail-safe features include dual redundant Gigabit Ethernet ports,
support for RAID 0, 1, 5, plus hot spare, and NETGEAR’s proprietary X-RAID2
TM
for automatic
volume expansion. You can also allocate iSCSI target volumes on ReadyNAS 2100, ReadyNAS
NVX, and the ReadyNAS Pro series.
In addition to a Web based graphical user interface (GUI) and setup wizard for ease-of-use and
setup, ReadyNAS features status indicators that provide quick system status readings and
incorporates an active system monitoring capability which continually monitors the entire system
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